Bal d’Opera

Event Information

Venue(s):
Pike's Opera House

Manager / Director:
David L. Downing

Conductor(s):
Gustav Weingarten

Price: $5 admits a gentleman and a lady; $2 extra ladies’ tickets; $10 balcony boxes; $25 proscenium boxes

Event Type:
Band

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 September 2017

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Apr 1868, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Seventy-First Regiment Band
2)
Crispino e la comare, selection
Composer(s): Ricci, Ricci
3)
Roméo et Juliette, selection
aka Romeo and Juliette
Composer(s): Gounod
4)
Juive, La, selection
aka Jüdin, Die
Composer(s): Halévy
5)
Belle Hélène, La, selection
Composer(s): Offenbach
6)
"Flieset schnell, Tränen mein"
aka O ye tears
Composer(s): Abt
7)
Fille du régiment, La, selection
aka Daughter of the Regiment, The ; Figlia del reggimento, La; Child of the Regiment, The; Regimentstochter, Die
Composer(s): Donizetti

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 April 1868, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 16 April 1868.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 16 April 1868.
4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 20 April 1868, 7.
5)
Review: New York Herald, 21 April 1868, 7.

“The programme appropriately consisted of operatic selections, the music being under the direction of Mr. L. M. [D. L.] Downing, of the Seventy-first regiment band, with Mr. G. Weingarten as leader. The order of dancing was in fourteen pieces, exclusive of the grand selection of honor from ‘Crispin and the Fairy.’”

6)
Review: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 22 April 1868, 8.

“. . . . Mr. S.N. Pike, the owner of Pike’s Opera House . . . gave an Opera Ball on Monday evening, which was very well attended. He understands that when one of the millionaires gives a ball there must be more than enough opulence and elegance to go around.”